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All the beautiful embroidery, lace, and fine linen which pretty Michal had worked and woven with her own hands, an inestimable treasure, had become the booty of these vagabonds. "May the vihodar of Zeb break every one of them on the wheel!" cried the kopanitschar. At these words Henry's face became fiery red. But Michal threw her arms round his neck and consoled him.
The doorkeepers, too, were to let no one in or out, not even Pirka. As if it were possible to keep a witch under lock and key! She was at Eperies before the vihodar and his company, although she did not set out till an hour later. Michal had told Pirka that she should not require her during her husband's absence, and might therefore leave her to herself.
Then he went to his wife, and wrapped her in his mantle to protect her from the cold night air. "Is your father's house much further?" she asked tenderly. "There it is, straight before us," answered Henry; "my father is the vihodar of Zeb!" Contains the proper explanation of things which have hitherto remained obscure.
This incident so revolted Valentine that he reeled, and clinging tightly to Simplex, stammered: "I really believe I am going to faint." "Hold up a little bit longer!" whispered Simplex in his ear. As soon as the people learnt that Janko had killed the vihodar with a single bite, a fearful tumult arose.
And then she kept Michal awake till long after midnight by telling her of the adventures and exploits of the robbers, and the terrible fate which awaited them at the hands of the vihodar of Zeb. "Who is he?" asked Michal. What! not hear of the vihodar! He was the headsman of Zeb, a man famed far and wide. They call him the vihodar.
He felt that this heroic resistance had very considerably impaired his prestige in the opinion of the people. This blot upon his escutcheon must be wiped off. The third robber chieftain, Janko, still remained. He should serve to restore the honor of the vihodar. The old vihodar proposed to do great things with him.
"Trust to parsons, and you'll soon see what a pretty dance they'll lead you! The parsons have many creases in their surplices, and they shake a fresh ordinance out of every crease. Do what you say, by all means! Bring your action against Henry Vihodar, formerly clerk in holy orders, and now headsman, and you'll find that justice is on the side of the longest purse.
The young lady thought how funny it is when man and wife laugh in unison. It is perhaps a wife's greatest bliss to be able to laugh when her husband laughs, and weep when he weeps. But the kopanitschar gave the trumpeter a violent blow on the back and said, half in jest and half in anger: "I'll never be your guide again as long as I live! May the vihodar of Zeb get hold of you!"
The old vihodar exhausted all his skill upon the robber, and the robber never ceased hurling defiance at the vihodar. They cursed and reviled each other like devils. The robber laughed at all the torments, and infuriated the vihodar by asking him derisively when he was going to begin. The vihodar was quite beside himself for rage, and excelled himself in the invention of fresh torments.
It was the second apprentice, who used to lend the vihodar a helping hand in all his great achievements. The first apprentice already worked on his own account. The intruder did not bestow upon her so much as the shadow of a salutation, but slouched down upon the kitchen bench, threw his heavy hat on the hearth, and blandly said to the lady: "Give me to drink, my pretty mistress!
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